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![]() When starting QEMU management apps will usually setup a monitor socket, and then open it immediately after startup. If not using QEMU's own -daemonize arg, this process can be troublesome to handle correctly. The mgmt app will need to repeatedly call connect() until it succeeds, because it does not know when QEMU has created the listener socket. If can't retry connect() forever though, because an error might have caused QEMU to exit before it even creates the monitor. The obvious way to fix this kind of problem is to just pass in a pre-opened socket file descriptor for the QEMU monitor to listen on. The management app can now immediately call connect() just once. If connect() fails it knows that QEMU has exited with an error. The SocketAddress(Legacy) structs allow for FD passing via the monitor, and now via inherited file descriptors from the process that spawned QEMU. The final missing piece is adding a 'fd' parameter in the socket chardev options. This allows both HMP usage, pass any FD number with SCM_RIGHTS, then running HMP commands: getfd myfd chardev-add socket,fd=myfd Note that numeric FDs cannot be referenced directly in HMP, only named FDs. And also CLI usage, by leak FD 3 from parent by clearing O_CLOEXEC, then spawning QEMU with -chardev socket,fd=3,id=mon -mon chardev=mon,mode=control Note that named FDs cannot be referenced in CLI args, only numeric FDs. We do not wire this up in the legacy chardev syntax, so you cannot use FD passing with '-qmp', you must use the modern '-mon' + '-chardev' pair. When passing pre-opened FDs there is a restriction on use of TLS encryption. It can be used on a server socket chardev, but cannot be used for a client socket chardev. This is because when validating a server's certificate, the client needs to have a hostname available to match against the certificate identity. An illustrative example of usage is: #!/usr/bin/perl use IO::Socket::UNIX; use Fcntl; unlink "/tmp/qmp"; my $srv = IO::Socket::UNIX->new( Type => SOCK_STREAM(), Local => "/tmp/qmp", Listen => 1, ); my $flags = fcntl $srv, F_GETFD, 0; fcntl $srv, F_SETFD, $flags & ~FD_CLOEXEC; my $fd = $srv->fileno(); exec "qemu-system-x86_64", \ "-chardev", "socket,fd=$fd,server,nowait,id=mon", \ "-mon", "chardev=mon,mode=control"; Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> |
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contrib | ||
crypto | ||
default-configs | ||
disas | ||
docs | ||
dtc@e54388015a | ||
fpu | ||
fsdev | ||
gdb-xml | ||
hw | ||
include | ||
io | ||
libdecnumber | ||
linux-headers | ||
linux-user | ||
migration | ||
nbd | ||
net | ||
pc-bios | ||
po | ||
qapi | ||
qga | ||
qobject | ||
qom | ||
replay | ||
roms | ||
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scsi | ||
slirp | ||
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target | ||
tcg | ||
tests | ||
trace | ||
ui | ||
util | ||
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COPYING.LIB | ||
COPYING.PYTHON | ||
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HACKING | ||
LICENSE | ||
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Makefile.target | ||
README | ||
VERSION | ||
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balloon.c | ||
block.c | ||
blockdev-nbd.c | ||
blockdev.c | ||
blockjob.c | ||
bootdevice.c | ||
bt-host.c | ||
bt-vhci.c | ||
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cpus.c | ||
device-hotplug.c | ||
device_tree.c | ||
disas.c | ||
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dump.c | ||
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hmp-commands.hx | ||
hmp.c | ||
hmp.h | ||
ioport.c | ||
iothread.c | ||
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memory_ldst.inc.c | ||
memory_mapping.c | ||
module-common.c | ||
monitor.c | ||
numa.c | ||
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os-win32.c | ||
qdev-monitor.c | ||
qdict-test-data.txt | ||
qemu-bridge-helper.c | ||
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qemu-img-cmds.hx | ||
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qemu-keymap.c | ||
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qemu.sasl | ||
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qtest.c | ||
replication.c | ||
replication.h | ||
rules.mak | ||
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README
QEMU README =========== QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and virtualizer. QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7 board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board). QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation. QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings. It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API. It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager. QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file. Building ======== QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are: mkdir build cd build ../configure make Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website: https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32 Submitting patches ================== The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system. git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files. Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via the QEMU website https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches The QEMU website is also maintained under source control. git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu-web.git https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/ A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions, or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps manually for once. For installation instructions, please go to https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish The workflow with 'git-publish' is: $ git checkout master -b my-feature $ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each $ git publish Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer back to it in the future. Sending v2: $ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch $ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example) $ git publish Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip will be tagged as my-feature-v2. Bug reporting ============= The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources should be reported via: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/ If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be reported via launchpad. For additional information on bug reporting consult: https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug Contact ======= The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two main methods being email and IRC - qemu-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel - #qemu on irc.oftc.net Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be found online via the QEMU website: https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere -- End